Covid response ‘one of UK’s worst ever public health failures’

>Prof Trish Greenhalgh, of the University of Oxford, said the report hinted at a “less than healthy relationship” between government and its scientific advisory bodies.

No shit. That's been abundantly clear since at least 2009, when David Nutt was fired - from his position of chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs - for publicly holding the radical opinion that the legal status of drugs should reflect the harm that they do.

The following astonishing justification was given: "he cannot be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy".

That tells you everything you need to know about the UK government's attitude to scientific advice.

It's always funny how Sweden is left off the COVID infection rate charts...